Saturday, June 12, 2010

Web-Version of Gem Square

With the development of the web service for my own high score system I decided to also create a web version of Gem Square. You can play it at webgames.mystictri.com The game is implemented as a Java Applet and uses the same game code as the Android version. It has its own weekly and all-time high score board that is viewable on the web page. I think the mouse interface works quite well considering that the game was designed for touch screen devices. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Building my own global High Score system

I just released a new version of Gem Square (1.2) and with this version my new high score system is going live. In the older versions I used ScoreNinja that worked ok but I missed some important features like saving your nickname and multiple highscore lists. So I decided to build my own global high score system using Googles app engine. It now supports multiple lists per application which I use for Gem Square to provide an all-time highscore lists and a weekly list. The details of the high score system are quite simple. It is a servlet written in Java that recieves the highscore posts via HTTP, stores them in a database and returns the top ten for each list. Now that I have my own system I can think of many nice features I want to integrate in the future. One of this features would be to actually show the current high scores on a web page.